How To Use Nipping In A Sentence
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I couldn't swear to it, what with scissors snipping and buzzers buzzing, but I think the young lad was asking his dad why you still needed a haircut when you were going bald.
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As the beauticians of the city watched in attention, her fingers moved nimbly showcasing the latest in hairstyling, colouring and snipping techniques.
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Professor Weiss, a psychologist at Jena University, believes the brain quickly learns to connect words like 'crampy' and 'nipping' with sensations of pain.
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I was surprised how weak and light-headed I felt on nipping out of my hospital bed to recover a dropped book.
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Fine if you're just nipping in for a wazz; but anyone who comes in, drops their trousers and sits on the bog will be plunged into darkness before they've finished.
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My mare rolled over and over in the wet grass and was playful with the gelding, nipping at his hocks and tempting him to chase her.
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Lucius pulls him close, nipping at his throat, tasting of sunlight and colour.
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Except for once. 3 crows after a redtail, one was nipping at its tail.
All hunters have seen crows go after a hawk.
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I put a drop noseband or something similar on the horse to stabilize his jaw so that the game of nipping or mouthing me just never even gets started.
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Their pleasures gave but a pinchbeck joviality after all, were but a thin lacker spread over mercenary cares and heart-aching jealousies -- not the jealousies of passion, but the nipping vulgar vexation with which a shopkeeper trembles lest a customer should go to his rival over the way.
Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)
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Some joined the guerilla warfare of the zealots nipping at the heels of mighty Rome.
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As she showed me her herb section, she kept snipping off pieces for me to take home.
SOMEBODY
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It was a false scent, but ahead of him the horses grew restive, jostling and nipping, and the grey fretted against his hand.
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Nipping at his heels is a cast of established stars featuring Phil Mickelson, David Duval,
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The shubunkin can be boisterous with other fancy goldfish, chasing and nipping their tankmates.
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A burglar will never be able to disarm the system by snipping the wires.
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Winter is here, temperatures are dropping, and whether you like it or not, Jack Frost will soon be nipping not only your nose, but the rest of your body as well!
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And Chase running around behind Foreman, kind of nipping at his ankles Pay the man!
Squealy fangirl stuff.
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The young men can often be spotted nipping across the road to the garage to buy sweets, biscuits or a Ginsters pasty, and a Daily Star or Sun newspaper to look at the pictures while eating.
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I've wanted to make a garden box for ages and love the idea of snipping herbs right out of my garden.
Gardening
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This gives it better low-speed stability than a normal motorbike and should help it appeal to people who've never ridden one, but like the idea of nipping in and out of traffic on a nimble urban vehicle.
Crave at CNET UK
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The procedure involves snipping a bit of skin from the patient to get the DNA.
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He saw his rescuer standing just a few feet away from him a small dog nipping at her heels.
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Our role is not to "solve" the crumbling of an edifice, by which I suppose one might mean nipping the crumblement in the bud, or at least trying to slow its relentless progress towards utter devastation and ruin.
Hooting Yard
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We play for a while, and end up outside, where Sara is snipping lilacs from the bushes.
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Mark then started nipping on the edges of the pencil shaped hole.
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Then he lunges at me, with tweezers, wire cutters, screwdrivers, bottle openers and scissors all snipping, whirring and snapping at me in perfect synchronicity.
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Snipi, which became available as a free download from Snipi. com on Monday, helps you organize your online-shopping results by gathering, or "snipping," product information from Web pages and saving the information to lists.
Organizing Your Online Shopping
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Trimming the tag end of the knot or even simply cutting it can pose a problem for anglers more used to snipping monofilament.
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Comedy is a good way of nipping that tendency in the bud and it is a tendency I do have when I'm haranguing my friends.
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They were, consequently, the first dispossessed; and the seemingly inevitable fate of all these people, who disappear before the advances, or it might be termed the inroads, of civilization, as the verdure of their native forests falls before the nipping frosts, is represented as having already befallen them.
The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757
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Realizing now was time for action, he rolled from the snapping ivory teeth, the chops nipping at his feet as he narrowly escaped.
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Furiously, she grabbed a large pair of scissors and started snipping away.
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I was nipping off to the loo to inject myself during surgery.
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All the time we had been together, I don’t recall snipping at her.
2008 March 27 « Exile on Ninth Street
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Furiously, she grabbed a large pair of scissors and started snipping away.
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The Jewish operator, after snipping off the foreskin, rips up the prepuce with his sharp thumb-nails so that the external cutis does not retract far from the internal; and the wound, when healed, shows a narrow ring of cicatrice.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Bo managed to get past the bar without succumbing to nipping quickly through it's heavy wood doors.
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He also knew that in snipping away even a small piece of malignant tissue they might endanger Frau H. by accidentally disseminating tumor cells and promoting the spread of what had already proved itself to be a highly malignant cancer.
Vaccinating Against Cancer
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Sel was snipping holes in a piece of paper, making a doily for the cake stand.
MR STARLIGHT
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He had obviously been on the plane from a previous leg, nipping at those little bottles of Jack Daniel's.
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A broadwing couldn't have pulled this off; nor could a broadwing have used foreclaws as cleverly as she did, snipping the wire net free with special scissors, then cutting the ropes holding Aubri down with a heavy knife she had already used once to good effect.
The Black Gryphon
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Kathleen was the most otherly of what Isherwood always called the Others, those Blimps and boors he felt nipping at his heels.
Darling Me
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Her faultless nature, one sum of perfections, is wrapt up in her affections — if they were hurt, she would droop like an unwatered floweret, and the slightest injury they receive is a nipping frost to her.
The Last Man
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And it's sometimes destructive, since it requires workers with either chain saws or wheeled, pincer-armed loaders that move through the woods snipping trees as they go.
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Mental illness can lead to poverty and crime, and nipping that in the bud is a very proactive decision by the government.
2008 August 19 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
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The interatomic distances in a crystal match quite well the wavelengths of X-rays. von Laue worked out the theory for diffraction in a 3-dimensional grating and made predictions, which were verified by the experiments of W. Friedrich and P. Knipping.
The Dual Nature of Light as Reflected in the Nobel Archives
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After a troubled construction, it opens with Camulodunum, a show featuring works by Ai Weiwei , among others.29 Pop: Rihanna After nipping over for the summer festivals, Rihanna starts a proper three-month UK tour in Belfast.
Autumn 2011 arts calendar
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Initiative members argue an ACE/Intel machine would have helped Intel distinguish itself from the cloners nipping most furiously at its heels.
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The milk-cows were nipping the clovery parks, and chewing their cuds at their leisure; -- the wild partridges whidding about in pairs, or birring their wings with fright over the hedges; -- and the blue-bonneted ploughmen on the road cracking their whips in wantonness, and whistling along amid the clean straw in their carts.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
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I leaned against Lily's saddle with a yawn and she glanced back at me before letting out a soft nicker and nipping at me.
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Airs romped around him, nipping and eager airs , they are coming, waves.
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In fact, snipping dill is the best way to mince it - it bruises the delicate leaves less than chopping.
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They allow me to operate at a comfortable standing position and to feel around before snipping, avoiding damage to the bark of the hedge itself.
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Among her other eyespot studies, snipping 20 feather tips out of males' trains ruined courtship success.
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Remove the birds and carve down one side of the breast bone, snipping the bird in half.
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Probably given we got there so fast, plus swallowing an aspirin during home as good as nipping multiform in a Emergency Room, no clot had shaped around a obstruction, which assumingly was caused by a plaque of cholesterol with a separate in it occluding a wall of a red blood vessel by prominent in to a lumen.
Archive 2009-11-01
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Gosnell referred to it as "snipping," prosecutors said.
Abortion Doctor Charged With 8 Counts Of Murder
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In response to a recent article over at Business Week, "Snipping Credit lines for Small Businesses", which discusses how JPMorgan Chase and others are slashing small-business lending in an effort to shore up their balance sheets, I must, unfortunately, question the use of the word 'snipping'-which, to me, sounds like a tiny trim.
Dispatches from TJICistan
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The fix includes snipping underneath the skin to sever the connective tissue, causing the scar to spring up.
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I put a drop noseband or something similar on the horse to stabilize his jaw so that the game of nipping or mouthing me just never even gets started.
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Take the globe produced by snipping Nancy's New Geo map and turn it under your gaze, and you will see where these winds will establish themselves.
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Behind that is broccoli calabrese, which is going to need transplanting soon, I suspect (that, or I'll be snipping very small florets), and to the left is, uh ... not sure.
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Except it's not really comparable because using an electric epilator is really more like have a little contingent of ants steadily nipping their way across a large expanse of your skin -- remember when Barbarella found herself overpowered by those jaw-snapping dolls?
Life's Little Updates
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Lo, there is a gun before him, and the shade of a stately stag nipping the phantom of a youthful hazel.
Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3)
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Katie, love the idea of snipping the basil with scissors.
Basil and Parmesan Rice with Pine Nuts
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We have infestations at different times of things like Spider Crabs and Spider Crabs are very fond of nipping the ends off the arms and sucking the gonads out from inside.
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And that is why he uses every opportunity to fulminate against the feuilleton press, which he accuses of intimidating younger colleagues and nipping their political engagement in the bud.
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In a sexual behavior known as 'nipping,' males contact their snouts to the female genital area prior to copulation.
Carin Bondar: Excuse Me... I Think You've Got Something Stuck on Your Upper Lip
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She would be out milking the cows, nipping the turnips, weeding the carrots.
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There seems to be titillating flirtation that transpires -- vocalization, sniffing, nuzzling, nipping, or flehmen response -- all of which involve the stallion seeing and interacting with a mare's head and forebody.
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Unconsciously she shivered from a combination of the nipping wind that breathed against her skin and the gust of apprehension escaping her lips.
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It was not only spiteful enemies in human form, that sent crashing shells and piercing bullets, but every kind of nipping, boring, sucking, and stinging creatures in the air and on the earth, that our brave soldiers, and especially our wounded, had to face.
Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman
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When he discovered that some species migrate hundreds of miles a year, he began snipping minute samples of wing tissue from bats he caught in mist nets.
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He was snipping very cautiously at the head of this almost bald guy who was sitting there like a gonk.
Times, Sunday Times
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He bolted, trying to get away from the snake that was nipping at his hocks.
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That seems to have changed recently: there are hordes of them now, racketing around having a laugh and nipping off on expensive holidays and spa weekends.
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She was standing looking at her body in the full-length mirror through the steam of the filling bath when she heard the steady snipping of garden shears.
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His pet struggled in his grasp, nipping angrily at fingers.
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The postman ran away with the dog nipping at his heel.
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The Jewish operator, after snipping off the foreskin, rips up the prepuce with his sharp thumb-nails so that the external cutis does not retract far from the internal; and the wound, when healed, shows a narrow ring of cicatrice.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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a nipping wind
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Sel was snipping holes in a piece of paper, making a doily for the cake stand.
MR STARLIGHT
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Besides overseeing the continuous adjustment, by trimming of sails and orders to the helmsman, of the Arangi to her way on the sea, and overseeing the boat’s crew at its task of washing deck and polishing brasswork, he was engaged in steadily nipping from a stolen bottle of his captain’s whiskey which he had stowed away in the hollow between the two sacks of yams lashed on deck aft the mizzenmast.
CHAPTER VII
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The dress is really rough but I have been chopping and snipping it all day.
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Such weighing and mixing and chopping and grating, such dusting and washing and polishing, such snipping and weeding and trowelling and other small gardening, such making and mending and folding and airing, such diverse arrangements, and above all such severe study!
Our Mutual Friend
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The 4-8 tightens braces and halyards that may have gone slack overnight and usually sees to re-nipping the buntlines.
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Some of these early cancers can be destroyed by laser beam or by snipping off the tumour and burning with a hot wire passed through a cystoscope.
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Left behind are dry nipping ambient winds and sleepy-eyed guitars like so many tattered articles of clothing and in their place emerge woolly layers of banjo, children's xylophones, trumpets and home-recorded toy pianos.
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Besides overseeing the continuous adjustment, by trimming of sails and orders to the helmsman, of the Arangi to her way on the sea, and overseeing the boat's crew at its task of washing deck and polishing brasswork, he was engaged in steadily nipping from a stolen bottle of his captain's whiskey which he had stowed away in the hollow between the two sacks of yams lashed on deck aft the mizzenmast.
Chapter 7
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It's set in the early 60s, when a middle-aged magician is touring the fading vaudeville circuit and rock and roll and old age are nipping at his heels.
Michael Giltz: Toronto Film Fest Days 1 And 2: Midnight Madness
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Motorists head 'off-piste' to evade cameras designed to catch cars nipping through a bus-only junction in Colchester.
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The priest was taken to interrupting wedding or funeral services by nipping out the side of the clapboarded church and accepting the home-brewed beer offered by peasants seeking the latitudes of grace they thought the priest could lead them to.
Excerpt from Pompeii ii
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Sel was snipping holes in a piece of paper, making a doily for the cake stand.
MR STARLIGHT
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“I say,” he said now, laughing nervously, but with an undernote of snarl in his voice, “why on earth are you nipping my arm off, Horrocks, and dragging me along like this?”
The Door in the Wall, and other stories
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First, they have to prove their secateur skills by snipping a border.
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To make things less cluttered I used my pruner to cut off some lower branches of the redbud, nipping them nearly all the way to the tree's trunk.
Fear of Pruning
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This year my arugula harvest was all "thinning"--the patch was so thick I simply kept pulling out little plants and the others would move in and take over the space--so I'm not sure about snipping leaves and having them grow back.
Garden Update #6
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The cold winds were nipping at him badly, but Peter did not care.
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Core Security Technologies, is nipping at Microsoft's heels about what it calls Redmond's
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Season well and serve with olive oil croutons, and snippings of fresh green herbs.
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He was snipping very cautiously at the head of this almost bald guy who was sitting there like a gonk.
Times, Sunday Times
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And so, sensitive observers were suddenly noticing the ambulances nipping through the traffic, presumably rushing to deal with the latest sighting of SARS.
